Maple Hill Academy

This was NOT today.  Foxtrot read this book to me a couple of months ago... But, it is close to the type of pictures I wanted for the Firs...

When I first set to the task of Canadianizing AO, it seemed like an insurmountable job.  But I eventually found some help from this post...

Ok, I realize that it probably feels like I've fallen off the face of the planet.  I do have a couple of draft posts that have been ...

Hey everyone!  No, I have not abandoned this blog... just been an interesting summer.  I've been busy figuring out the changes to Can...

Zulu, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot, Yankee, Golf - after swimming I was thinking the other day, that I should share a few of the cute things my...

Delta in his baptismal clothes It is hard to believe how quickly time goes by.  Just a few short years ago, Delta was a babe in arms, an...

Space Shuttle Cake My young man has turned 8!  It is hard to figure out where the time went.  It seems like just yesterday that he was a...

Well, here is a blog with the Bunk Room of my dreams... (Although we would need a girl version...) - I'd love to order a 4 bunk...

It is hard to believe that Golf is 1 already! She has been slow to eat solids, and wouldn't eat anything homemade at all. I reso...

Just popped in to say that I'm sorry I haven't been posting much. The last couple of weeks have been vacation time for the famil...

So Foxtrot turned 3 recently. Boy does time go by fast. I had to share her birthday cake with you. Of course as we all avoid twaddle (yea...

An e-friend sent me an email asking about combining the family together to do subjects, as she had looked at the year groupings I had ...

A Frame from a later animation - a Band playing... Delta (and Echo and Foxtrot) has (have) been introduced to the concept of stop-motion...

There are days when I feel almost overwhelmed in trying to plan my children's education. It really makes me appreciate the hard work th...

Well, it has been a busy month. Sorry for the lack of posts! At the start of our term, I made a few changes to how we are doing things, and...

Harry Chapin has a song, which explains one reason why we homeschool better than I ever could... Flowers are Red by Harry Chapin The little ...

In Flanders Fields, by John McCrae In Flanders Fields the poppies blow Between the crosses row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky T...

A long time ago there were 2 wolf packs. Each wolf pack was very small, each consisting of one Alpha male, a "mother" wolf, and t...

I've been doing some pondering the last couple of days, for no apparent reason, on whether kids (in general) grow up too fast. It s...